SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Tuesday to improve services in the digital government, online gaming and telemedicine sectors, saying digital technologies should be a tool to promote people’s freedom and welfare. Yoon made the remark during a government-public debate on people’s livelihood issues, the seventh in a series, which [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting from the new school year, cases of school violence in Seoul’s elementary, middle, and high schools will no longer be handled by teachers but by specialized ‘school violence investigators’. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced that from March 2, when incidents of school violence are reported, these dedicated [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on January 28 that it is initiating a ‘City-District Integrated Link Service,’ enabling the borrowing and returning of toys and childcare items from the Seoul Toy Library located in Daebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, across all 25 district toy libraries in Seoul. The Seoul Toy Library, which first [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — In a stark illustration of South Korea’s deepening low birth rate crisis, a growing number of schools are closing their doors. The birth rate has plummeted to an alarming 0.7, sparking fears of a national existential crisis. The situation has become so severe that even the sight of empty cribs [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The expanded implementation of the workplace safety law, penalizing employers for serious industrial accidents, is set to take effect later this week as scheduled, as rival parties have failed to agree on granting an additional two-year grace period for small businesses. Under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, owners or [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Thursday to make sweeping improvements to commuter transport in the Seoul metropolitan area by extending express rail networks and adding new bus lanes and double-decker electric buses. Yoon made the remark during a government-public debate on people’s livelihood issues, the sixth in a series, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT will kick off the bidding process for the 28 gigahertz spectrum Thursday, aimed at establishing the country’s fourth official mobile carrier. Three companies — Sejong Telecom Inc., Stage X Co. and My Mobile Consortium — will participate in the auction for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Sohn Kyung-shik, chairman of the Korea Enterprises Federation (KEF), has raised strong concerns about the imminent expansion of the workplace safety law aimed at penalizing employers for fatal industrial accidents. The law, implemented in January 2022, subjects business owners or CEOs of companies with 50 or more employees to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Wednesday it has granted Inspire Integrated Resort Co. a license to operate a foreigners-only casino at its resort in Incheon. This marks the first time such permission has been granted in South Korea since 2005. Currently, South Korea has 17 casinos, [...]
GANGNEUNG, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The organizing committee of the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics’ decision to provide free condoms to participating athletes has sparked strong opposition from parent groups in South Korea. On January 23, the National Parent Association released a statement criticizing the move: “Distributing condoms at the Youth Olympics, which should be [...]